TryHackMe: Pre Security

author: Nathan Acks
date: 2021-09-16

A Bit of Background on Linux

The first release of Linux was on September 17, 1991.

• Linux (Wikipedia)

General/Useful Utilities

Quick-n-dirty Python 3 web server:

python3 -m http.server

Processes 101

Selected Linux process signals:

• SIGTERM - Kill the process, but allow it to do some cleanup tasks beforehand
• SIGKILL - Kill the process - doesn’t do any cleanup after the fact
• SIGSTOP - Stop/suspend a process